Pollution

We know climate change is the biggest threat facing our
planet, which is why it is Greenpeace’s priority campaign across the world. Today’s
report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s highlights the
enormous impacts
and consequences climate change is having on our oceans. This must act as a
wake-up call for everyone who depends on, or cares about our oceans and the
vast array of life within them.

These are the most important messages from report - and they mean for our oceans.

Greenpeace doesn’t
endorse farmed salmon. There you go, that’s it in black and white. Next
time you see someone say we do – feel free to forward a link to this blog-post.

I’m writing this to set the record straight after a few
instances of producers and retailers (and even the occasional NGO) wilfully
misrepresenting us as having supported, endorsed, or given their salmon
farming some sort of ‘best practice award’.

Fashion companies like Zara are using toxic chemicals to make their clothes

What are you wearing today? Touch it. Go on. What does it feel like? Yes, you're touching a piece of clothing. You're touching a type of fabric. You're touching a fashion choice. And yet, there's more to it: You're also touching a story. Because every piece of clothing – in your wardrobe, in my wardrobe, in everyone's wardrobe – has a story.

George Osborne launched an assault on
green measures in his Autumn Statement that reads as if it were written by
the UK’s biggest polluters. Tax breaks for heavy polluters, renewed support for
airport expansion, opening the countryside to development, more roads and a
freeze on fuel duty - all this adds up to the dirtiest budget in recent history.

70% of China's rivers and lakes are now dangerously polluted: manufacturing industry being the main cause

There's
a skeleton in H&M's closet. The fast-fashion retailer sells clothes
made with chemicals which cause hazardous water pollution around the
world, and the only way to stop this water pollution is to come clean
and stop using such chemicals for good. As one of the largest clothing
groups in the world, a H&M committed to a toxic-free future would
set a trend for the rest of the fashion industry to follow.

Our
latest research reveals that the
clothes you are wearing may contain nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs) - chemicals that are effectively banned in clothing manufacturing in Europe - which can break down in water to form nonylphenol (NP), a
toxic, persistent and hormone-disrupting substance. 52 out of 78 garments
from 14 global clothing, brands sold in the UK and the continent, tested positive for NPEs, including four
Adidas articles.

Within hours of Nike's
announcement on 18 August to champion a toxic-free future,
Greenpeace activists in cities around the world headed to their nearest
Adidas store with huge Detox stickers to rebrand the shop windows and
doors.

The world's number one sportswear brand, Nike, has accepted our Detox challenge:
today it has officially committed to eliminating all hazardous chemicals
across its entire supply chain, and the entire life-cycle of its
products by 2020. This is a major win for our campaign to protect the
planet’s precious water, and create a toxic-free future.